INK START FANTASY: Dream
CHAPTER 126: CONCLUSIONS THEY CAN MAKE

The protective shield was very strong and sturdy. Although a massive black smoke-shaped energy came crashing through the shield of Galadriel's ability, not a single hint of smoke could penetrate through it.

"kugh.... What really happened!?"

"a lot of it!"

"i hope this shield holds him strong"

Yup! the onslaught of black smoke that was like sunami had even made the room turn pitch-black. Even the illumination from the light of the nest wall, could not penetrate the onslaught of black smoke.

With the collapse of the illumination light due to the black smoke, Togay casts his magic of the initiator, [Little Light] which is obtained in the village of beginners. With such a small scope, just one illumination was enough for them.

"what really happened to the Dream Master?"

Because of the previous Dream warning, the group can prepare themselves. Knowing this, Elder Feanor asked the Dream which she thought knew something.

"where Ether is, all this black smoke is where Ether is"

One sentence uttered from Dreams, made the entire group dumbfounded by it.

"it looks like they've pulled Ether mana from all over the place. Even the Ether I had absorbed, felt a slight tug"

"mr Dream Master... do you absorb Ether mana every time you heal another?"

"what!?"

"do you want to be a heretic!?"

"do you know that where Ether is where the devil is!?"

The stunned Astarese, the scolding Alanea, and Istina who reminded Dream. They react to what dreams do.

"that's not all that matters, is your body okay? while on Lake Insania, you absorbed Mana Faith, and now you absorb Ether. The two forces clashed with each other and could not unite, both energies had the inverse nature. If put together in a container, the conflicting energy would only damage the container"

Elder Feanor was one of the elders who was around the lake of Insania when Dream visited her. Seeing with his own eyes, so that he knew what was happening at that moment.

As if to explain what had happened to Elder Feanor, the dark elves were more astonished at the truth, even Alanea who had not liked Dreams had been shocked by it. Not only did it absorb Mana Faith, but it also absorbed the Ether mana within one body.

The nature of which Faith is nurturing and healing, commonly referred to as the Mana Light Core. It is commonly used by priests to care for and restore.

Whereas Ether is corrosive, destructive and painful, it is commonly referred to as Mana Core Chaos. The average is used by undead and underworld creatures.

If the container has both energies, the energy properties will damage the container itself. Where Ether will damage and destroy, then where Faith will restore and repair.

Repeatedly many times until the container is unable to defend itself. That was what would happen if one tried to absorb both energies simultaneously.

Seeing the Dream that had both of those energies in one body, made Elder Feanor herself worry. There was no visible thing happening to his body, even more astonishing to the elves and dark elves themselves.

"it's okay. I have an ability that can control both energies"

"how long do we have to wait?"

Togay who asked suddenly seemed not to see the atmosphere. Only, that question returned them to their current reality.

The black smoke was still pounding nonstop and they could do nothing but wait and hold hands on Galadriel to retain her shield magic. Nowe himself constantly supports Galadriel with his recovery magic.

"what can we do but just wait?"

"can't you absorb this black smoke as well?"

Seeing and hearing for yourself the confirmation of the Dream, it was not wrong when Togay asked that. It's just that, if it had to absorb this much whole Ether energy...

"you're telling me to kill myself? by absorbing this much Ether? no thanks, I'll die from overdrive"

The Ether Mana that Dreams were trying to absorb, still had side effects with each absorption. Ether mana can indeed be controlled while it has been in the Dream body, but in the process of absorption itself, rejection and mutual destruction are still there.

The pain inflicted was still felt every time Dream absorbed the existing Ether mana. Therefore, if it absorbed the entire mana of Ether that was visible at the moment, it would be tantamount to a 'suicide' option'.

"so we can only wait..."

"they have decided to absorb which Ether they have dispersed, then what function do they spread from the beginning? is it related to the 'umbar' like the Dream master said before?"

"there are a few possibilities I can think of. First, where Ether were in the bodies of dark elves and guardians, they flourished. I knew that while absorbing Ether mana from them. Second, the characteristic of where Ether is, this energy can be created when the body of a living being has fallen, in other words 'dead'. So they can increase the amount of Ether mana even though they divide and spread it themselves"

"".....""

"third, they attacked with guerrilla tactics even though they had mastered many of the monsters and dark elves completely, why? because the Ether contained in the monsters and dark elves they had controlled had not been fully or fully developed. Those who do not want to lose where is Ether? this means that Ether can escape their control if it leaves the body within a period of time. Where Ether, though negative, it is still classified as free, if they can control it completely, means they are gods, because the theory is impossible, so they are calculatingly 'darling' what they have"

"...why is that why we still remember the whole event, even though we are being controlled...?"

"one of them. That's because the Ether that controls you isn't full yet, the results can't do much, but the development of where Ether can be felt as I absorb the mana from you"

Dream pointed at dark elf Dowen as he said so. Where Ether controlling the Dowen at that time clumped and berak full, as if it was forcing to develop itself even though the body of the container entered was falling.

"...hmm, so the final conclusion is the current occurrence. Because we came and screwed things up. Eliminating the contained body where Ether they controlled, as there was a time limit when where Ether became mana free after leaving the container, they chose to directly retrieve it. Unable to stop us who had broken into its main headquarters, they chose to perform the ritual further and take all the Ether where they could. That is to say elsewhere, the entire dark elf nest point, the battle of Ararik, and the battle in the city of Cilvsi?"

Elder Feanor's words at the final conclusion, made everyone 'was-was'. What rituals will they perform? where is this much Ether? even if the elves did not attack, it meant that Ether required more than this. How big is the ritual?

"..yes, even to take mana from the wall of the nest..."

*Shelf! Cracks!

*blars!

As Dream said, the walls around which flowed, began to collapse and suck like these black smoke. The wall of the dark elf nest flowed mana to repair itself, but it collapsed completely and any of it that was flowing on the wall was also absorbed.

Due to the black smoke from which Ether was still crashing, so their sight was completely covered, only a pitch black was visible from outside the shield. From the very beginning that Dreams say is the truth, they can only trust the Dream utterances and the sound of the walls crumbling alone at this moment.